Creating a CNAME record for any of the domain addresses or subdomains that you have in a hosting account will permit you to direct it to a different domain/subdomain. The forwarded Internet domain will lose all its records - A, MX etc, and will take the records of the domain address it is being redirected to. In this light, you cannot set up a CNAME record to redirect your domain to a third-party provider and retain a working e-mail service with the first hosting company. Also, it is important to note that a CNAME record is always a string of words and not a number as it is generally wrongly identified as the A record of the Internet domain being forwarded. One of the main uses of a CNAME record is to point a domain name you own through one provider to the servers of some other provider if you have created a site with the latter. In this way, the site will appear under your own domain address, not under some subdomain provided by the third-party provider.

CNAME Records in Hosting

You can effortlessly set up CNAME records in case you have a hosting from our company. We're going to supply you with an easy-to-use CP where you can view all DNS records for the domains and subdomains that are hosted within the account. Creating a CNAME record requires a number of simple steps - choose the domain/subdomain, pick CNAME as the type, enter the hostname you are redirecting to, and then just click the Save button. The process is as elementary as that and the new record will be active almost immediately. In this way, you're going to have more control over your domain names and subdomains and over the content they open, you'll be able to create a private URL for company e-mails, and a lot more. If you feel unsure about how to set up a new record or you have never done such a task, you will find a short video tutorial in which you can see the whole process first-hand. If you choose to change or delete an existing CNAME record created for a domain/subdomain hosted on our end, it will take you literally just a click to do it.

CNAME Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are going to be able to set up, change and delete CNAME records easily with any of our semi-dedicated server plans. The accounts are controlled from the custom Hepsia hosting CP, and in one of its sections you will see all records for every domain address or subdomain you have added in your account. To create a new record, you simply need to select the hostname which will be forwarded (domain/subdomain), type in where it will be forwarded to, pick the record type, that'll be CNAME in this case, and you'll be all set. In case you have never used a web hosting service before, our CP is very easy to use, so you'll not have any problems. We also have a short video and an in-depth help article regarding how to create a CNAME record, both of which are located in the same section of Hepsia. With this function, you can easily use a domain name hosted on our groundbreaking cloud hosting platform for a website created elsewhere, set up a custom webmail login address with any of your domains, plus much more.